Bima Arya Hopes There Will Be A Relaxation And Lowering Of PPKM Levels For Bogor

Bogor Mayor Bima Arya at Bogor City Hall (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The Bogor City Government, West Java, hopes that there will be relaxation after PPKM Level 4 on 3-9 August 2021 and there will be a decrease in PPKM levels after that. "We are waiting for the results of the PPKM Level 4 evaluation in Bogor City which will be announced by the central government on Monday, August 9," said Mayor of Bogor, Bima Arya in Bogor City, reported by Antara, Sunday, August 9. According to Bima Arya, the evaluation of PPKM Level 4 in Bogor City in the past week, the Bogor City Government could not decide first, but waited for the evaluation results from the central government. "After that, the Bogor City Government and Forkopimda will evaluate, to determine the next policy," he said. in Bogor City in the past week, from Tuesday, August 3 to Monday, August 9 tomorrow, there will be relaxation and improvement in status.

"We hope the status can drop from Level 4 to Level 3. This decision rests with the central government," he said. Bima Arya explained that if you look at the indicators, during Emergency PPKM and Level 4 PPKM, starting Saturday, July 3, until today the trend of COVID transmission -19 in the city of Bogor has dropped significantly. For the number of active daily, he said, at the beginning of last July, it reached 600 cases per day and now it has dropped to around 200 cases per day.

"On Saturday, there were an additional 224 new cases and on Sunday today there were an additional 118 new cases," he said.

On the other hand, the recovery rate of COVID-19 positive patients also continues to increase. On Saturday, August 7, there were 119 positive cases recovered, and on Sunday today there were 287 positive cases recovered. today it has dropped to 2,641 cases. The bed occupancy rate (BOR) of positive COVID-19 patients in hospitals, in early July reached 82 percent, and on Sunday today it has dropped to 45 percent.

"The standard safe limit from the World Health Organization (WHO) is 60 percent," he said. Bima hopes that with the indicators achieved by the Bogor City Government today, there will be relaxation and a reduction in status from Level 4 to Level 3.